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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Keen Sight. The raptor has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Recorded Mimicry. The raptor can mimic any sound, including voices, it has heard in the last 24 hours. A
created expressly to be familiars. Such creatures have the following trait.
Familiar. The anvilwrought can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a magical, telepathic bond with its willing master
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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royal family could poison a meal and declare it “safe” after taking a bite.
There are legends of certain yuan-ti infiltrating human cities and forming deadly covert societies that sell
have changed over time.
Some yuan-ti add more sibilants to their birth names to create an exaggerated hissing sound, based on one’s personal preference and whether an individual’s anatomy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
’ questions, the mist filling the common room swirls faster, and the characters hear the distant sound of howling wind and pounding waves. The spirits cry out, “Something terrible threatens our precious lore
puddles of water remain, each forming a distinctive sigil. They’re clearly visible for a minute before drying.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
1. Entrance The narrow corridor from the West Cleft opens into a long cavern lined with stalactites and stalagmites. Whater drips from the stalactites, forming small pools on the floor. The glow of
, and the sound around you is strangely muted. The dripping of water makes no echo, as if you stood in open air.
This place offers many hiding places for characters to lay in ambush. Faerzress
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Wedding Rehearsal After the confrontation with Yestabrod, the characters can hear sound and movement from the cavern to the northeast. Read the following boxed text if the characters investigate
luminescent lichen and tumescent growths forming chaotic patterns on their decaying flesh, their voices stabbing into your minds, both insane and gleeful in equal parts:
From rocky bed the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Version M1. Main Tunnel The mine is dark and damp, and you hear the sound of dripping water echoing from deep within. The light fades faster than it should as you move deeper, until you’re wrapped in
spontaneously manifested rather than being dug out, there are no scratch marks or signs of excavation on the walls, floor, or ceiling here. The moss muffles all sound, causing a lack of echoes and creating a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
miles, you hear the ringing of a bell. The sound grows louder as Nightstone comes into view. A river flows around the settlement, forming a moat. The village itself is contained within a wooden palisade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the earth. Blocks of stone thrust up in some places to hinder movement through passages and caverns, while other areas drop off suddenly, forming escarpments hundreds of feet high. In some places
Manual). If the thonot dies, the other quaggoths immediately break off their attack and begin feasting on the thonot’s remains, hoping to gain its psionic power. Shriekers The shriekers sound off when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. The raptor can mimic any sound, including voices, it has heard in the last 24 hours. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Insight) check
FAMILIAR
Some anvilwrought raptors are created expressly to be familiars. Such creatures have the following trait.
Familiar. The anvilwrought can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Some DMs like to use music, art, or recorded sound effects to help set the mood, and many players and DMs alike adopt different voices for the various adventurers, monsters, and other characters they
, attack rolls, and saving throws are the three main kinds of d20 rolls, forming the core of the rules of the game. All three follow these simple steps.
1. Roll the die and add a modifier. Roll a d20 and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Morass A fetid stench accompanies the sound of the marching modrons trudging through sucking mud. Thick black sludge covers the floor of the cavern ahead.
The ooze is all that remains of the semidead
version of its true form, that of a constantly rotting and re-forming corpse with shifting features (chaotic evil; use the lich stat block). It revels in its freedom and shares anything it knows with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Beast Dens Bones are piled against the western walls of this cavern, forming low mounds.
Creatures. Two adult displacer beasts dwell here with three reduced-threat displacer beasts (see “Reduced
. Four leucrottas (see appendix B) lurk here among the trees. They make noises that sound like the calls of pained humans, which their handlers normally ignore. The creatures gleefully attack anyone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Words spoken by a creature standing on the balcony are magically amplified to sound ten times louder than normal. Y19q. Iriolarthas’s Study This room can be accessed by activating the magic door in area
paraphernalia. A soft groaning sound emanates from a shadowy, door-sized rectangle along the curved northern wall.
Staircases to the east and west descend to the lower part of the room, where a sunken
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
snap off the first time it’s used. 12. Bottom of the Shaft The floor at the bottom of the shaft is littered with charred dwarven skeletons. A 60-foot-high waterfall pours out of the north wall, forming a
large pool about 10 feet deep. All you can hear is the sound of crashing water.
A dozen charred dwarven skeletons litter the floor. Eight of them are ancient and covered with calcium deposits, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
splits the waterway north and south. The sound of falling water is louder to the south.
The current pulls to the south of the island toward the waterfall leading to area P17. Characters navigating
dead-ends in a long cavern where only the distant sound of the falls echoes off the walls. Nets divide the cavern, spanning the distance between pairs of stalagmites jutting above the water.
Seven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
humanoid and fly. A chasme shuffles about on four spindly legs that can find purchase on walls and ceilings. A droning sound precedes the approach of a chasme, inflicting foes with a terrible lethargy
Perception 15
Languages Abyssal, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Drone. The chasme produces a horrid droning sound to which demons are immune. Any other creature that starts its turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
-square shaft plunges into darkness. The sound of slowly dripping water echoes up the shaft. Characters who have darkvision or a sufficient light source can see that the shaft descends 40 feet to some
servants who swore to avenge Stahbal Indi-Bhak’s family. Whenever a wight is killed in this vault, some of the bones knit together, forming 2d6 animated human skeletons. These skeletons attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. “Reverse.” The entire room is affected by a Reverse Gravity spell. The waterfall flows upward, exposing the hidden archway to area P44 and forming an upside-down pond in the ceiling. This effect can
(Perception) check hears a faint tapping noise coming from the dome’s east side. This sound is a gnome named Prit (see area P54), rapping on the other side of the wall with a spoon. This section of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
minds.
14. Unfinished Guest Room Dark green tiles cover the floor and ceiling of this room, forming an incomplete mosaic that depicts sahuagin warriors defending an underwater city from a tentacled
half-wall surrounds three sides of the staircase. Piles of colored tiles sit near the wall, awaiting placement. The sound of water lapping against stone can be heard coming up from the bottom of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, solemnly ringing handbells. They wear headdresses made from animal skulls (badgers, wolves, and rams) and are further adorned with necklaces of dangling bones. Known as the Dead Ringers, they sound
the power to commune with the dead by forming a circle and ringing their bells. (A minimum of three goblins are needed to perform the ritual.) After 1 minute of this clamor, the ephemeral spirit of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
feet of the altar, the words vanish as bones hidden under the debris at the north end of the room rise up and knit together, forming three animated human skeletons. The skeletons are evil undead, but
with her liberators. During her incarceration, she heard what sounded like a heavy stone door scraping open and closed from time to time, accompanied by the sound of splashing footsteps. The noise came
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
buckles (1 gp each), and an anemone stuck in a glass bottle. 49. Champions’ Armory Two stone racks run the length of this room, forming aisles. The racks hold spears, tridents, and warhammers.
This
18 Strength check clears the rubble in a matter of moments. The sound of the slab being smashed rings through the nearby rooms, drawing the attention of the three sahuagin champions (see appendix C) in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
reflection as shown in the carvings, then tries to petrify them. T4: Priest Quarters Most of this small room collapsed long ago, forming a narrow passage through the earth into the area beyond. A stone bed
sound rolls through the room. Creatures in the room must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
over a waterfall into a dark abyss. The sound of rushing water echoes like thunder within this vault, the ceiling of which glitters with mineral deposits like a perpetual starry night.
A skyweaver
knew the command words to control the golem; those words have been lost. Waterfall. A large gap in the west wall leads to a 200-foot-deep chasm. Water from the moat drains into this chasm, forming a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf, dead for at least a week.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide
northeast.
The sound of pounding surf that gives Wave Echo Cave its name can be traced to this water-filled cavern. The ledge that hugs the south wall is 15 feet above water level. However, when water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Lightning arcs, forming a 5-foot-wide line between two of the lair’s solid surfaces that the dragon can see. They
reaches the forest floor carries an emerald green cast, and every sound seems muffled. At the center of its forest, a green dragon chooses a cave in a sheer cliff or hillside for its lair, preferring an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
are three lizardfolk in this room forming up under one officer (lizardfolk scaleshield; see appendix C) to go on patrol in the lair. Development. If the lizardfolk in this room have been alerted, they
is meditating. He is roused by the sound of combat or any direct attempts to contact him. Unless cornered, he flees to area 20 and returns with the occupants of that room. If they are gone or slain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of the sound amplifier described in area X16.) Displayed against the curved walls are a dozen lifelike statues (the remains of humans, drow, dwarves, goblinoids, and kobolds who defied the beholder
of death and carnage. Three wooden tables are arranged corner to corner, forming a triangle, in the middle of the room. The floor around them is stained with blood. Atop two of the tables, held down